Events Calendar: June 2010

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ZOO BREW

Enjoy beer and ale from your favorite Northwest local breweries, fantastic food from Oregon Zoo Catering and live entertainment on the main stage featuring Portland favorite, Crazy 8s! Proceeds from Zoo Brew will help award-winning zoo education programs and provide new veterinary equipment. Only guests 21 and over will be admitted.

Ocean Commotion

Celebrate World Ocean Day at the zoo's Ocean Commotion festival! You will have the opportunity to learn about the world's oceans and ways to protect them through fun events and exhibits. Games, educational activities, keeper talks, crafts and more will be offered throughout the day.

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Second Tuesday

Tour the zoo for the discounted price of $2 per person! Children under 3 years of age will, as always, be admitted free of charge.

With support by and

Zoo Father of the Year

One of the zoo's dads will be chosen as Zoo Father of the Year and receive a special Father's Day treat. Great photo opportunity - bring your camera!

Red Ape Reserve House-warming Party

The much-anticipated Red Ape Reserve, the zoo's new expansive indoor-outdoor naturalistic habitat featuring Sumatran orangutans along with white-cheeked gibbons, is nearing completion. We need visitors to put a few final touches on the exhibit to make it a safe and welcoming home for the animals.

June 18–20, Red Ape Reserve will be covered with a visual barrier for visitors to decorate with handprints. This is one of the final steps before animal introduction begins in the exhibit. These are highly intelligent animals, and the visual barrier around the exhibit will give them some privacy as they get used to each other and their new exhibit.

The exhibit is really amazing, and provides new opportunities for our orangutans and gibbons to experience a natural habitat of foliage, water features and weather. Sway poles, vines and trees enable the apes to swing through their arboreal habitat.

Come to Oregon Zoo and make your mark on this new exhibit. Activities are free with zoo admission.

Bowling for Rhinos

Bowling for Rhinos is the AAZK's annual bowl-a-thon, benefitting rhino conservatories across the world. The rhinos in Africa and Asia still desperately need your help. 100% of the money raised goes to help save the rhinos, their habitat, many other species and also helps the local communities with schools, clinics, water projects and much more.

There will be plenty of door prizes, including:
- Apple iTouch
- Nintendo Wii
- Garmin GPS
- A picnic bench crafted by our own Philip Fensterer, and painted by Rama the elephant!
- And more!

More information and registration here!

Jewel, presented by Country Financial, with Radney Foster

Multi-platinum recording artist and songwriter Jewel will kick off our our summer concert series with her Star Light Café Tour, which will feature the three-time GRAMMY nominee performing acoustically in support of her sophomore country album, set to hit retailers June 8th.

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Prehistoric Predators

Fierce hunters and their nimble prey face off on an ancient rainforest trail featuring dinosaurs found around the world, including an intimidating Giganotosaurus. The path also features activity stations to unearth fossils and photo-opportunity spots. Identification posts geared to all ages explain the differences and similarities to present day predators and their prey. Tickets for this special exhibit are $3.50 in addition to general zoo admission.

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SUMMER ON-GROUNDS PROGRAMS

• Wild Life Live! presented by
  
  
• Naturalists
• Insect Zoo
• Trillium Creek Family Farm
• African Pygmy Goat Kraal
• Tidepool Naturalist
• Master Gardeners

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